Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:47:53 +0100 From: "Avi Cohen Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Re: "State of the Art" on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!)
Hi, I also have a Mandrake 9.2 running. I think I had the CD images ripped to the DOS image. (Image, first installed WIN98 to get a program to rip the ISO images or ftp them and then use the floppy to boot :-) Didn't try the network option then. I also tried 10.0 but that didn't work out. Indeed too heavy. Another option I tried was Gentoo (3th stage) using a second computer to bootstrap and to compile the kernel. Took me some rebuilds before I had a working kernel (wrong processor selected...) Forgot how I did it but that worked also after a while. The mandrake 9.2 did very well. And after a lot of hard work I even got the Margi DVD-to-Go with Zoomed Video working! Took me some kernel changes in the PCMCIA driver, sound driver and a lot of hacking into the Neomagic driver. I even IDA pro-ed the windows driver to have it reveal it's dark secret about the Zoomed Video interface. In one of these days/weeks/months I might add the gory details here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics In the meantime it contains the two sides of the Libretto motherboard scanned in using my flatbed scanner and a collection of the Windows 2000 and XP drivers. Avi. > -----Original Message----- > From: T. Ribbrock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 13 December, 2006 14:05 > To: Libretto > Subject: [LIB] Re: "State of the Art" on OS for the > 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!) > > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:51:42 +0100 > From: "T. Ribbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: "State of the Art" on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM > (and the 96MB thing!) > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:50:19AM -0700, Lines, Nick wrote: > > Thanks for all the input - keep 'em coming if anyone else > has any tips! > > Ok, even if I'm late to the party... ;-) > > I had Mandrake Linux 9.1 running on my 100CT (later 110CT), > on a 20GB drive. That combo worked *very* nicely and that > Linux version was easy to install, as Mandrake at the time > had PCMCIA network drivers in the installer, hence, you just > needed to boot from one floppy (with BIOS support), then > switch to network install. Obviously, this requires a network > card and ideally a second machine that can be used as server > (though an internet connection might do). > > I later switched to Mandrake 10.0 which was a nuissance - > much, much slower (most likely too much going on in the > default install) and more difficult to install (the PCMCIA > networks drivers now reside on a second floppy, which cannot > be read due to Linux not supporting the Libby's floppy - but > you can install from a PCMCIA SCSI adapter and a SCSI CD-ROM > drive instead, if you happen to own both...). This was on a > 60GB drive. > > Not impressed, I moved on to SuSE Linux 10.0 - for this, I > had to install the 60GB drive in another machine, as I could > not figure out a way to install otherwise. I still have this > combo running (mainly as MP3/OGG Vorbis player in our living > room), but it's too slow to be comfortably used as web > browsing machine (also, the small screen doesn't help - most > websites basically *require* >= 1024x768 these days, alas). > I've also used it for some simple web development in this > configuration (Apache installed, with some PHP/CMS). To safe > memory, I'm running Window Maker and the odd xterm - I would > not recommend even thinking about any of the "big" desktop > environments a la KDE or Gnome. > If I just want to check some mail, I don't even bother > starting up X - just the command line is sufficient and very > fast. Even browsing web sites works to some extend on the > command line (links, w3m), though less so than a couple of years ago. > SuSE 10.0 is still slow, though less so than MDK 10.0 - the > biggest annoyance being yast2 (SuSE's configuration tool), > which uses oodles of memory and hence runs as molasses on the Libby. > > I'm still wondering whether I'll try OpenBSD on that box one > day - I'd still have to put the drive into another machine to > install, but the system as such is so nice and lean that it > might well be worth the effort - I still have the 20GB > drive... ;-) Or I might switch back to an older Linux version > or something like DamnSmallLinux. > > I never even considered running Windows on the Libby - the > whole user experience of a Windows desktop is so annoyingly > cumbersome to me that it drives me insane within a very short > period of time. Bad enough that I have to use it at work... :-} > > Cheerio, > > Thomas > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org > "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your > dreams come true!" > >
